Andris Piebalgs is EU commissioner for development since 2010. A member of the Lead Group of the Scaling-Up Nutrition Movement, the U.N. High-Level Group on Sustainable Energy for All and the U.N. High-Level Panel on Post-2015, he was previously commissioner for energy and occupied several ministerial portfolios in Latvia.

Andy Haines was the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine until October 2010. He currently works at LSHTM as professor of public health and primary care with a joint appointment in the Department of Social and Environmental Health Research and in the Department of Population Health. His research interests are in epidemiology and health services, with a focus on primary care and the study of environmental influences on health. He sits on many national and international committees including, until recently, the WHO Advisory Committee on Health Research. He is also currently chair of the THET Board of Trustees.

Andy Schroeter is co-founder and CEO of Sunlabob Renewable Energy, a Laos-based company that specializes in renewable energy and clean water projects in the developing world. A consultant to the Asian Development Bank, the EU Energy Initiative and other rural development agencies, Schroeter has spent over 15 years working on sustainable development initiatives in remote, off-grid areas throughout Asia, Africa, India and the Pacific islands.

Andy Sharpless is CEO of Oceana since 2003. Under his leadership, the Washington, D.C.-based organization has grown to become the largest international conservation group fully dedicated to protecting the oceans. Before joining Oceana, Sharpless helped launch Discovery.com and RealNetworks.

Andy Solomon-Osborne is head of mental health and psychosocial support for Action Against Hunger’s Ethiopia team.

Andy Sumner is professor of international development at King’s College, London, and president of the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes. He is also a senior fellow at the United Nations University, WIDER, Helsinki, and the Center for Global Development, Washington, D.C. His research focuses on questions of global inequality, economic development, and development cooperation.

Andy White is coordinator of the Rights and Resources Initiative. He also serves as president of the Rights and Resources Group, the nonprofit coordinating mechanism of the RRI Coalition based in Washington, D.C. Prior to co-founding RRI in 2005, Andy served as senior director of programs at Forest Trends and Natural Resource Management Specialist at the World Bank, as well as worked as a consultant to the International Food Policy Institute, Save the Children Federation and the Inter-American Foundation. He has worked extensively in Haiti, Mexico, and China. As coordinator of RRI, he advises policy research, advocacy, and engagement in Asia, Latin America, and Africa and leads initiatives and networks to advance RRI's mission. His research and publications have focused on forest tenure and policy, forest industry and trade, as well as the role of forests, communities, and institutions in climate change.

Anesa “Nes” Parker is a manager in the federal strategy practice of Deloitte Consulting LLP and a former GovLab Innovation research fellow. During her consulting tenure, Nes has led engagements for government, philanthropic and nonprofit clients at the intersection of human rights and security to achieve social impact. She is especially passionate about issues that overwhelmingly impact women and girls and leads Deloitte’s efforts to end modern-day slavery.

Angel Gurría is the secretary-general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a position he has held since 2006. Gurría is a former finance minister and minister of foreign affairs for Mexico.

Angela Bruce-Raeburn is the founder of DiverseDEV, a boutique consultancy established in 2018 following the very public scandals about racial discrimination, harassment, and sexual misconduct to focus on mission-driven institutions in the international aid and development communities. Previously, Bruce-Raeburn served as the regional advocacy director for Africa and Asia at the Global Health Advocacy Incubator where she focused on locally led advocacy for policy change in public health.